Busy Weekend

It was a hectic weekend, started off with the Ensemble Xmas party, two birthday dinners, two birthday parties, one get together and lastly, a dimsum lunch. Lots of freakn food and not to mention all the alcohol consumed...!!! After all that, I am still 152 lbs, not bad... I wonder where all that fat went... probably cuz its too cold, burned them all away during the night... Anyway, no album this time, just a collage of photos taken with my compact camera. Oh ya it's snowing...

9five Eyewear 2009 Lookbook

9five Eyewear 2009 Lookbook from Mike Metcalf on Vimeo.

Pretty cool slow motion video from 9five, showing off their eyewear collection this year.

Found it from hypebeast.

About time...

It's about time that I take pics again. The weather's been so crappy that I haven't been using my camera to its full potential. It's been sunny for the past few days now, I finally took it out for walk... :D

Album added: 20091205 Randoms

andbythewei.com

I have been wanting to take pics with my flashes outdoor, but never had a chance to do so, until today, since my sis needed new photos for her fashion blog at www.andbythewei.com. It was cold but it turned out pretty well. Those optical slaves didn't work at all for the 2nd and 3rd flashes I wanted to use, prob cuz it was still too bright outside, so I ended up using only 1 flash with the umbrella.

Album added: 20091129 Sandy

JL Dinner @ Kobe

aka Ghost Squad Reunion... It's been awhile since all of us got together to have a good dinner, everyone got busy or a couple of us usually can't make it somehow, well, me especially... But not this time!!! Thanks for organizing Dru...

20091122 Chicago Blackhawks vs Vancouver

Just a boring video of players entering the rink and then the Canadian National Anthem performance. Oh, and 1-0 for the bad guys... :(

Shitty Weather...

Just some photos from last week that I took with my compact camera at various places. I haven't been able to take photos with my D3 due to weather. Um... I need ro challenge myself and start taking quality photos in this shitty weather... :D Ideas?

Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion

I didn't know his speech was controversial because I never saw it, but now that I have, I wouldn't say it's controversial, it was just Michael Jordan being himself. We all know he is a borderline jerk, on the court and off the court. Did you all expect him to be humble and classy on his night? I didn't. He bullied a lot of ppl in his speech, unnecessary, yes, but it's his speech, he has the mic, it's his moment, and he wasn't lying about all the little stories he told, I had a few laughs, so it's all good... :D

20091108 Just Another Brunch...

We haven't had brunch for awhile, the last time was almost a month ago just before the trip to Vegas. We went to Hell's Kitchen for brunch but we weren't impressed, the food was just OK, not spectacular. We enjoyed our coffee/cookie more though at 49th Parallel just across the street, it was packed but it was worth it.

Album added: 20091106 Weekend

Evil Brother vs Baby Sis...

My New Mac Wallpaper

This is my new wallpaper on my Mac. I had to photoshop quite a bit on this one though, cuz my bed was really messy...

20091031 Halloween

We were the slutty school girl and the nerdy boyfriend... :D I wanted to dress up as a horny teacher originally but we don't know how to pull that off convincingly. But ya, not like I pulled off the nerd all that well anyway, but still... fun night and good times, I actually don't quite remember how I got home at 4am, but I did get home safely... :D

Album added: 20091031 Halloween

You make me...

Dance like nobody's watching,
Love like I've never been hurt,
Sing like nobody's listening,
And live like it's my last day on earth.

Life brings challenges and circumstances that I must overcome. This is it. I must not surrender to expectation, haste and ego fulfillment. I must master the ability to give; That is to give understanding, patience and compassion; a quality that is the foundation of pure love.

GO!!!

20091015 Las Vegas

Woohoo~ I finally went to Las Vegas...! I have always wanted to go with someone special, and I waited and waited and waited, almost 10 years I waited...

Ironically, it's like Susan's 11th time or something, 3rd time this year alone... ridiculous... haha... probably not so special for her...

Many times I had the chance to go but I decided I will wait a little longer for that someone special, so I always found excuses not to go. I finally gave up waiting and almost went with my pals for xmas last year, but that didn't go through because one of us couldn't get off work in time...

Anyway, it was worth the wait, not to mention I was there on my Birthday... :D

I didn't really take my time taking pictures, I didn't want to make Susan wait too long so I took pics as fast I could as we walked everywhere. Oh well, maybe next time...

Some places worth noting:

1. We stayed at Encore
2. Susan took me to SW at Wynn for birthday dinner
3. We watched "O" at Balagio
4. We went drinking at Mix, 64th floor at Mandalay Bay
5. We went clubbing at XS at Encore
6. We had the best Oysters at a tiny Oyster Bar at Palace Station

Album added: 20091015 Las Vegas (Note: I got lazy and mixed photos from my Big and Small camera together)

Pre-Birthday Surprise

So, we are about to go to Vegas tomorrow for the first time (for me, and like 11th time for Susan), and I've been looking around for a nice bag to carry around for short trips and stuff...

Ever since Vince introduced me to Filson earlier this year when I was flying a lot for business trips, I've been eyeing one but never really had a good enough of an excuse to actually buy it... Well, cuz, I haven't traveled at all since then.

Anyway, I woke up late today because I think I was getting sick so I chugged down some Neo Citron last night. This morning, Susan was unusually hyper sending me text messages while I was on my way to work.

I walked into the office and found a big ass box on my chair, wrapped in Christmas gift wrapping paper which I thought looked familiar for some reason (I found out later that she actually stole my wrapping paper from my room). Just as I was about to open to see what and who it is from, Susan called trying to see what my reaction was. She thought my reaction was dull and clam, not knowing I have not opened the gift, yet. I didn't want to give my reaction away not knowing for sure she sent me the gift, it would be awkward if it was from someone other girl now wouldn't it, hahah...

Anyway, I figured it was from Susan and then finally opened it... And there it is... The bag I've been wanting for several months... Thanks BEE~... Now I can close Filson's website that I have been staring at for awhile... :D

20091009 Thanksgiving Weekend

Um... I had an urge to take black & white self portraits this weekend, so did that.

We haven't had a good brunch for awhile because we had a hard time waking up 'early' and get ready for it in time, most places stops serving brunch around 2~3pm. Finally, we found a place that serves brunch til 5pm! And even better, we had coupons for it, heh...

Oh, and we went back to Kingyo again cuz it was a special day... 5 months ago~ :D

Album added: 20091009 Thanksgiving Weekend

20091004 Gastown

I wanted to check out some shops in Gastown so we walked around for a few hours there, and took some pictures. They were shooting some movie right in front of the new convention centre. Supposedly, a maniac runs out of the building and started firing guns at a Mercedes C class fish-tailing out of the intersection, of course a couple of cars crashing at the intersection. It was suppose to take place in Europe, so all the street signs were changed into European street signs, as well as fake European cop cars and fake European cops. It was pretty cool watching the setup for the shot and what was involved in a movie shoot. Pretty neat! And a lot of paparazzi with big ass lens there as well, we couldn't telll who was the main actor/actress in the scene though, probably somone not very well known.

Album added: 20091004 Gastown

20091003 Mini Cooper S

I did a photoshoot for Susan's good friend, Tony, today. He is trying to sell his Mini Cooper S soon and wanted me to take pics for him so he can post it along with his ad. The weather was really nice which helped... While I was shooting, I was asked to leave the private property by some security guard though. I apparently was blocking the parking lot, even though there were clearly no cars around on a sunny Saturday afternoon, oh well... He was just doing his job I guess. :D

Album added: 20091003 Mini Cooper S

More info about the car:
18000km blue w/ white roof, black interior, manual, no accident. perfect condition!! lowest mileage in town for 03 model. It has navigation, premium package, sports package...etc. Every option except for parking sensor.

20090927 Sunny Weekend

Weather was wicked, it was a bit cold but hey, I can't complain, it's almost October... It was probably the last sunny weekend of the summer anyway. We had a nice dinner at Brock House Friday night, hung out with the boys at Cascade, cleaned my room/bathroom on Saturday, got rid of almost 4 bags of clothes I don't wear anymore, etc... Walked around on Sunday, had some fish & chips at Granville island and went to Justin's surprise dinner later at night.

Album added: 20090927 Sunny Weekend

20090918 Pt. Roberts / Downtown

Ummm, been eating out lots, tummy feels like its bigger, yet I am able to keep those pounds off, I don't know how I do it, but I hope I can keep up... :P Anyway, was planning to go to White Rock for pictures, but we ended up at Pt. Roberts since its closer and we had a tight schedule that day. It's a pretty neat little place actually. The customs officer at the border gave me a funny look when I told him we were going to sightseeing, and said "Sightseeing???", heh... Well, I guess there isn't much to see at Pt. Roberts... I wouldn't mind going back again when weather is actually nice cuz we had to leave when it started raining.

Album added: 20090918 Pt. Roberts / DT Weekend